Functional total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage by left atrium-to-superior vena cava shunt

Masamichi Ono; Heidi Goerler; Harald Bertram; Thomas Breymann

doi:10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.08.039

Functional total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage by left atrium-to-superior vena cava shunt

Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Mar;91(3):903-4. doi: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.08.039.

Authors

Masamichi Ono¹, Heidi Goerler, Harald Bertram, Thomas Breymann

Affiliation

¹ Division of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation, and Vascular Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 21353024
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.08.039

Abstract

Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is occasionally associated with a functional single ventricle and is thought to be a risk for the staged Fontan approach. We report a patient with a very rare presentation of mitral atresia and intact atrial septum with physiologically total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage by a connecting vein between the left atrium and the superior vena cava. A surgical atrioseptectomy as a functional repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection and pulmonary artery banding was successfully performed as the first palliation for Fontan completion.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Anastomosis, Surgical
Cardiac Surgical Procedures / methods*
Child, Preschool
Female
Heart Atria / abnormalities*
Heart Atria / surgery
Heart Defects, Congenital / surgery*
Humans
Pulmonary Veins / abnormalities*
Pulmonary Veins / surgery
Vena Cava, Superior / abnormalities*
Vena Cava, Superior / surgery